But let’s see how long it has been since our spacecraft reached their destination. Launched on November 3, 1973, Mariner10 took 147 days to reach Mercury on March 29, 1974. But the speed still needs to go down a bit to reach the orbit. It took Messenger 1260 days to reach orbit. It will still…
The helicopter on Mars broke its own records on its 25th flight. The Injury flew 704 meters this time. That’s about three and a half kilometers! The flight took two minutes and 41 seconds. 161.3 seconds to be exact.
Finding that Mars has a slower speed of sound compared to Earth. The sound was recorded by microphones from the US space agency NASA’s Mars mission Perseverance. Sound travels on Mars at a speed of 240 meters per second. The speed on Earth is 343 meters. The study also explains that sound travels on the…
The Wallace Marineris is a system of gorges passing through the surface of Mars east of the Tarsis region. At over 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep, the Valles Marineris is one of the largest canyons in the Solar System.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover collects another sample from Mars. This is the seventh rock to be collected from the surface of Mars. This sample was taken from the Jazero crater on Mars. Perseverance is the size of a car. It will collect one more sample from the current area. After that we will travel to the…
Why Mars is a question that bothers many people. There are many reasons for this, but some are; Mars is one of the most similar planets to Earth in the Solar System.Like Earth, Mars has two polar ice caps. The North Pole is made up of a layer of ice about 3 km thick. The…
Images taken on EXI camera 2021 August 2021 during the Hope mission in the UAE.Phobos is located at an altitude of 6000 km above Mars when this image was taken. Phobos is one of the two moons of Mars.Phobos is generally thought to be an asteroid orbiting Mars. Phobos is also the Innermost Satellite orbiting…
On January 26, 2022, at 09:14 GMT, Mars and the young cluster NGC 6530 will make a close approach, passing about 30.2 arcminutes of each other. In comparison, the average apparent size of a Full Moon is about 31 arcminutes. Both objects will shine within naked eye visibility: Mars — at a magnitude of 1.4…
